Maarten Mortier

Watching Venus, Saturn and Jupiter in the same sky and I feel like I’m the only one who notices

Radio waves are pretty bad in water!

This album is incredible btw, started listening to it a while back and easily an audiophile’s dream in terms of Christmas music.

One observation of no longer using Strava/phone/smart watch for my runs is that after each run I still feel this small dopamine urge to check how fast I did a certain tempo segment.

Why communicate like this?

Now that Stormlight Archive #5 is out I could use a good primer because I forgot of the lore. Maybe something LLM’s could be good at..

X has become Truth Social

I think I’ll keep doing it > 12yo actually.

New amp build who dis.

I thought this exception was for the book Flights for a second. (Since “book Flights” is a terrible Google I’ll mention it’s by Tokarczuk)

Warming falafel in a pan and not for the first time I wonder if there’s a mathematical paper on how shaking a pan distributes the items to get cooked on all sides. Certainly gets interesting when symmetries change as one side is cooked

TV made bribing kids so much easier

The pendulum is multi dimensional
There is also an urge for anti-bureaucracy as a counter motion to our failed attempts at digitizing ethics into complex rules

One may want to start with figuring out how a wasp (5k neurons) works.

The Jaguar rebrand meltdown is largely postmodern collective conscious thing but more crucially, I recently bought a gasoline era car and it was most confidently a Porsche because other brands are 95% brand and 5% car

A lot of alt right movements are on important things: MSM is spiraling down, political systems like gov are too large, …
I do think leftist (=“prefer/supprt change”) people like myself should be much more open to these topics as they chime with our values!

I don’t mean this too demeaning but a different take is not that cogsci and compsci drifted apart, but rather that compsci has relevant applications that cogsci can’t piggy back on

Almost done with this @bottlehead.bsky.social phono stage. Looking forward to how it will sound!

What’s the best red vermouth in existence?